Freight Runaway Plunges Into Lake Michigan in Two Rivers
A diesel locomotive and seven freight cars rolled unattended from Manitowoc yards through Manitowoc and Two Rivers at speeds of 30 to 40 mph. The engine and two cars crashed into Lake Michigan after plowing through an iron gate at C. Reiss Coal Co. yards. No crew was aboard despite breakfast break. Coast Guard investigation found no one at the controls.
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Two Rivers
Wis
Lake Michigan
Chicago & North Western Railway
Manitowoc
Jess Hamilton
North ‘Western
Coast Guard
Calumet Yards
Mantowoc
Andy
Highway 141
C. Reiss Coal Co
Kohler Firm Rejects New UAW Offer
Washington AP reports Kohler Co rejects the UAW demand for government arbitration to end a four year strike at its Kohler Wisconsin plant. Senate rackets committee hearings touched on criticism of local clergy as Mazey apologized and Kohler officials weighed mediators.
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Washington
Kohler Co
United Auto Workers Union
Wisconsin
UAW
Emil Mazey
Senate
Sheboygan
Wis
New Bulganin Summit Note Fails to Break Deadlock
The fourth Bulganin message to President Eisenhower repeats calls for an East West summit but offers no new proposals. It rejects German reunification talks and the future of Eastern European states, accuses the United States of pushing unacceptable questions, and suggests expanding two Eisenhower proposals while seeking a broader treaty and more cultural exchanges.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Washington
U. S. State Department
Soviet Union
United States
Bulgarin
Burglars Loot Mart and Start Fire in Montebello
Police report burglars stole $50 in food from a market at 4300 El Beverly Blvd, Montebello, then started a fire to hide the crime. Fire damage estimated at $20,000 to the market.
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Montebello
EL Beverly
Weather Outlook: Clouded Night and Saturday Rain Likely
Increasing cloudiness tonight with light rain likely on Saturday. Forecast calls for continued cool and windy conditions across the area.
Caltech President dismisses space platform fears as hysteria
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge told the Los Angeles Bond Club that space age predictions are grossly exaggerated and absurd. He argued a stationary platform above Earth cannot exist and warned a 20,000 mile high platform moving at 20,000 mph would fail as a bombing range and could orbit or hit unintended targets.
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Los Angeles
Caltech
Lee A. DuBridge
DuBridge
Bond Club
Parry One for Another and Tarry for Power
Cor 11 38 in brief notes shows Jesus tarrying in prayer before selecting the twelve. He faced worry and doubt, prayed, and tarried until divine power was known. The message urges steady waiting rather than rushing to action to fulfill His program.
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Christ
Jesus
Julien
C. Hyer
Storm of beans hits Van Nuys town in unusual hail episode
A storm that just passed brought snow rain hail and unexpected beans to Van Nuys injuring none. Miss Teto Emerson watched beans fall as winds 45 mph carried them southward from fields north of the Tebiachapi Mountains. Forecasters expect another storm Saturday with showery periods likely and cold temperatures. roads above 2500 feet in San Gabriel and San Bernardino counties closed to unchains.
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Southland
Weather Bureau
van Nuys
Teto Emerson
San Gabriel
San Bernardino
Torrance
$50,000 in Clothes Hijacked in Compton Burglary
Compton burglars stole a tractor trailer loaded with more than $50,000 worth of women's clothing from Japan at the J D Transportation warehouse on Avalon Boulevard while watchman Bobbie D Winninger was away. Entry via a sawn off door bolt. empty trailer found near Artesia Boulevard and the Long Beach Freeway. Warehouse owner Bernard Shapiro said the truck had been parked after loading from the Amem Maru in Wilmington. The cargo mainly consisted of blouses and slacks.
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Compton
Japan
J.D. Transportation’ Co
Avalon Blvd
Winninger
Bernard Shapiro
Wilmington
Artesia Blvd
Long Beach
Four Tons of Hippo Otto Loose in Florida
Otto the hippo escaped from Clyde Beatty circus winter quarters near Deland Florida and roamed toward the St Johns River hunted by about 25 circus workers. The three year old four ton creature, bought from Carl Hagenbeck, is not deemed vicious but dangerous as he could reach the ocean if he reached the river.
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Florida
Deland
Fla
Otto the Hippo
Washington
Reces
St. Johns River
Jacksonville
Atlantic
Otto
Clyde Beatty
Nee Hinckley
T . Circus
St. Johns
Cecil Hardy
King
Floyd King
Carl Hagenbeck Circus
Africa
Churchill is “Fine” Again, Medic Says After Illness
In Roquebrune Cap Martin France Winston Churchill is reported by his physician Lord Moran to be back to normal life after pneumonia and pleurisy. The doctor told reporters before Churchill's return to London that everything is fine again.
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Churchill
Roquebrune- Cap
Martin
France
Siri Winston
Enid
Lord Moran
London
Pickets oppose ban on burning in city
About 30 dump trucks with littered cargo protested anti smell orders outside City Hall. An effigy labeled Linsky stood as Benjamin Linsky, air pollution control director, watched. Demonstrators, dump operators, said they cannot obtain a permit. A city board committee recommended adding a ban on open dump burning to fire regulations.
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San Franciscu
Hall
Linsky
Benjamininsky
Board of Supervisors
City Hall
Seized Pilots Tell of Ordeal in Liner Fight
In a news conference William P. Hobbs and Air Force Lt. Col. Howard W. McClellan recounted how Korean Reds seized their air liner flying from Pusan to Seoul. The cockpit was sprayed with bullets as the plane went off course and the pilots fought to regain control before the airliner was diverted toward North Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
William P. Hobbs
Vallejo
Red
Hobbs
Air Force
Howard W. McLellan
Buenanan
Mich
North Korea
Pusan
Seouk
Reds
McClelland
McClellan
South Korea
New York jail for mother who attacked teacher in school
Mae Suggs, 40, was sentenced to 10 days in jail by a Special Sessions Court panel after storming Manhattan Public School 87 and striking teacher Marion Klein. She said she visited to complain about her daughter’s alleged assault by a teacher.Suggs hit the assistant principal and kicked him, breaking Klein’s eyeglasses.
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New York U
Manhattan
Mae Suggs
Special Sessions Court
Matthew J. Troy
Suggs
Marion Klein
Arthur Simon
Dist. Atty
Sidney
Fruhling
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Shan Kohler
New York
California
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England
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Europe
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New Bulganin
U. S
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Bronstein
Red Cross
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Fis
Gary Edward Fenn
Port Arthur
Tex
Galveston’ Hospital
Hal Boyle
Wilson
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